Re: Mandrake for Alpha Timetable?

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

> 
> As far as I see they are still testing it. One of the main issues is to
> get
> it booting on all different flavours of alpha hardware. I myself own a
> miata,
> and am testing the mandrake "distro" on it. The installation works like
> the
> intel version --> just fine. The only issue I'm having at the moment
> which
> is preventing me from using it is that the filesystem is formatted with
> a 
> "sparse superblock", and milo can't read that FS. So the kernel doesn't
> get 
> booted.

Ughh..MILO....the easyist way around this is usually to make /boot a
seperate partition, or say that you don't support machines booting from
MILO (SRM only, unfortunatly that does leave out a few machines, UX, XL).
 
> So... if you want to see a mandrake distro coming out on the alpha
> please
> join in on the "cooker" development. Subscribe to the mailing list and
> offer to test the distro on your machine.
> 
> > (And as an aside, any idea why Alpha architecture version wasn't out first?)
> Probably the lack of involvment of alpha-owners in the cooker project. I
> beleive
> I'm pretty much the only one (Could all alpha owners on the cooker list
> raise
> their hand?).

I think we need to be a little realistic here...I for one, did not know
about the Mandrake cooker project, and I did not know we could help with
the
porting effort (did anybody else know this?). If you don't tell people,
don't be surprised when they don't help, right?

If you'd like we'd be more than happy to post a news item at
alphalinux.org and send the info to the other mailing lists telling people
it out there if they want to help....

--rdp

Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org			www.alphalinux.org